With the varsity hockey seasons gearing up, ESPN and ESPN+ will air more than 800 games in 2024-25, culminating with the lads’s and girls’s nationwide championship video games.
The 2025 males’s Frozen 4 can be held April 10 and 12 at St. Louis. Denver, which beat Boston Faculty to win its report tenth nationwide championship in April, seems to cover its identify. ESPN’s protection will come with each sport of the NCAA event.
The 2025 ladies’s Frozen 4 can be held March 21 and 23 in Minneapolis, with Ohio Shape the reigning nationwide champ.
The masses of video games streaming on ESPN+ starting in October will attribute groups from Hockey East and the ECAC and come with nonconference and convention video games.
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TEAMS TO WATCH
Denver starts the season because the Negative. 1 crew within the USCHO.com males’s preseason ballot, with Boston Faculty, utmost occasion’s nationwide runner-up, score Negative. 2, and Boston College, additionally a Frozen 4 player in 2024, at Negative. 3. BC and BU are the zenith two groups within the males’s Hockey East preseason ballot, adopted through Maine, Windfall and UMass.
Two ECAC groups rank within the preseason zenith 10: Quinnipiac (Negative. 8) and Cornell (Negative. 9). The Bobcats and Large Purple each complex to the regional finals in utmost occasion’s NCAA event. Cornell were given the nod within the preseason ECAC coaches’ ballot over the protecting league champ, adopted through Dartmouth, Clarkson and Colgate.
At the ladies’s facet, groups from the Midwest sit down on the zenith of the nationwide USCHO.com preseason ballot, with Wisconsin at Negative. 1, adopted through Minnesota, Minnesota Duluth and Ohio Shape. The ECAC fills the after 4 slots with Clarkson at Negative. 5, adopted through Cornell, Colgate and St. Lawrence. UConn of Hockey East sits at Negative. 9, with Quinnipiac of the ECAC at Negative. 10.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Boston Faculty returns a couple of high-scoring first-round NHL draft alternatives in Ryan Leonard (Capitals) and Gabe Perreault (Rangers), the zenith two returning scorers in Hockey East. The Eagles additionally go back third-round pick out Jacob Fowler (Canadiens), who used to be utmost occasion’s Hockey East goalie of the occasion, and upload any other first-rounder in freshman Dean Letourneau (Bruins).
Boston College returns first-round pick out Tom Willander (Canucks) and provides two very popular inexperienced persons in Cole Eiserman (first around, Islanders) and Cole Hutson (2nd around, Capitals).
Alternative top-round NHL draftees in Hockey East and ECAC come with Windfall freshman Trevor Connelly (first around, Yellowish Knights), Northeastern teenager Cam Lund (2nd around, Sharks), UMass sophomore Aydar Suniev (1/3 around, Flames), Harvard sophomore Ben MacDonald (1/3 around, Kraken) and Clarkson senior Ayrton Martino (1/3 around, Stars).
The zenith returning avid gamers within the ladies’s ECAC come with Colgate goaltender Hannah Murphy, who had 15 shutouts utmost season, Clarkson defenders Haley Winn and Nicole Gosling and forwards Abby Hustler of St. Lawrence and Lily Delianedis of Cornell.
